Drew Thomas
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Drew Thomas
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Historian at UCD working on early modern printing, counterfeiting, visual communication and AI • THE INDUSTRY OF EVANGELISM out now from Brill • FRHistS
Does stamping butter predate the Gutenberg press?
July 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I had a great time in Saint-Étienne recently, speaking about multi-modal computer vision and Iconclass. Got to see a bit of Lyon too.
June 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Excited to present this week at "Computer Vision for the Investigation of Ornaments and Ancient Documents" @ Université Jean Monnet! My talk: Captions, Codes & Clusters—on using multimodal AI to map visual culture & religious messaging in the Reformation.
June 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Divine or not, mom's going to be mad about the footprints." (Augsburg, 1476)
February 6, 2024 at 1:54 PM